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- DictionaryDis·crim·i·na·tion/dəˌskriməˈnāSHən/
noun
- 1. the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people, especially on the grounds of ethnicity, age, sex, or disability: "victims of racial discrimination"
- 2. recognition and understanding of the difference between one thing and another: "discrimination between right and wrong"
Oct 31, 2019 · Discrimination: What it is and how to cope. For many people, discrimination is an everyday reality. Discrimination is the unfair or prejudicial treatment of people and groups based on characteristics such as race, gender, age, or sexual orientation. American Psychological Association. (2022, October 31).
Apr 29, 2024 · discrimination, the intended or accomplished differential treatment of persons or social groups for reasons of certain generalized traits. The targets of discrimination are often minorities, but they may also be majorities, as black people were under apartheid in South Africa.
Discrimination refers to the differential treatment of different age, gender, racial, ethnic, religious, national, ability identity, sexual orientation, socioeconomic, and other groups at the individual level and the institutional/structural level.
noun. an act or instance of discriminating, or of making a distinction. treatment or consideration of, or making a distinction in favor of or against, a person or thing based on the group, class, or category to which that person or thing belongs rather than on individual merit: racial and religious intolerance and discrimination.
Recognizing and Responding to Unfair Treatment. MTCT. By the Mind Tools Content Team. Unfair discrimination is a painful and costly problem. It can damage people's well-being, force their working relationships to break down, and prevent them from doing their job.
discrimination. noun. /dɪˌskrɪməˈneɪʃn/. [uncountable] the practice of treating someone or a particular group in society less fairly than others age/racial/sex/sexual discrimination (= because of someone's age, race, or sex) discrimination against somebody discrimination against the elderly discrimination in favor of somebody ...
(formal) [uncountable, countable] the ability to recognize a difference between one thing and another; a difference that is recognized. to learn discrimination between right and wrong. Young children find it difficult to make fine discriminations. It takes a lot of experience to make such fine discriminations. Oxford Collocations Dictionary.
